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Songs that bring back unhappy memories

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CaroDane Mon 19-Aug-19 23:10:55

Many years ago my now ex-husband waited until we were in a cafe at a garden centre of all places (presumably so I wouldn't make a scene) to announce he'd met someone else and wanted a divorce. The shock was unbelievable. We sat there in silence while the world went on around us. I have never forgotten the music that was playing in the cafe. It was Bonnie Rait - Can't make you love me if you don't.
How appropriate. I've always hated that song, and even now whenever I hear it, it fills me with pain and despair.
Anyone else have the same feelings when they hear a certain song ?

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mothertrucker52 Wed 21-Aug-19 23:26:37

I used to like "Free bird" by Lynrd Skinrd (speling?) until it was played at my son-in-law's funeral. Also Percy Sledge "When a man loves a woman" was a favourite of my husband's but to me it just illustrated the control he always exerted ??

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SparklyGrandma Wed 21-Aug-19 23:37:28

Everything I Own by Bread, after first teenage love was thwarted by my being sent back to the U.K. for school.

And a Boys to Men song after a sad family funeral, it was on the radio as we drove home. The title will come to me!

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SparklyGrandma Wed 21-Aug-19 23:38:45

End of the Road by Boys to Men ?

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Kiwibird Thu 22-Aug-19 09:14:11

"I'll Say Goodbye to Love" by The Carpenters when I was going through a period of postnatal depression and in a hospital ward nearly 50 years ago. It was my L.P. but why did I keep on playing that particular song when it made me so very sad? It just made things so much sadder and if I hear it now on the radio it can bring back those same acute feelings. The human mind is such a mystery.

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